Penholder



UN'ED STATES ATEN'E @FFQE BENJAMIN COLE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PENHOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,938, dated February 15, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN Conn, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New Yori, have invented a new and 11nproved Mode of Constructing Penholders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying draW- ings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a penholder (A) of a tubular form-the end holding the pen to be coinposed of three or more elastic shanks or ingers ((5) so arranged that two of the fingers Will grasp the pen upon the sides or edges, and the remaining finger or lingers will press upon the back partof the pen and force it against and under the small shonlders (c) on the edges of the lateral fingers;

thus securely holding the pen in its place. l The pen is prevented from passing too far up into the holder by a piece of metal (a), (turned down from a cut in the hack of the holder), which acts as a stop.

The pen is designed not to be inserted in the holder in the ordinary manner from the end, but to be pressed flat-Wise on the elast-ic fingers.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters lDatent, is-

The construction of a penholder with three 0r more elastic Shanks or iingers (7J) so arranged that the spring of said lingers Will hold the pen, by pressing it against and nnder the shoulders (c) of two lateral fingers, and thus admit the introduction of, and be adapted to pens of any ordinary size or thickness.

BENJAMIN COLE.

W'itnesses Claas. S. VESTCOTT, JAMES VHYTE, 

